CFR > Title 5 - Administrative Personnel > CHAPTER I—OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT > SUBCHAPTER B—CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS (parts 110 to 990) > PART 330—RECRUITMENT, SELECTION, AND PLACEMENT (GENERAL) > SUBPART L—Interagency Career Transition Assistance for Displaced Former Panama Canal Zone Employees (§330.1201 to §330.1204) > 330.1203—Eligibility.

330.1203—Eligibility.

(a) In order to be eligible for special selection priority, an eligible displaced employee of the former Panama Canal Zone must:
(1) Have received a specific notice of separation by reduction in force;
(2) Have not been appointed to another appropriate position in the Government of the United States in Panama;
(3) Apply for a vacancy within the time frames established by the hiring agency; and
(4) Be found by the hiring agency as well-qualified for that specific vacancy.
(b) Eligibility for special selection priority as an eligible displaced employee of the former Panama Canal Zone begins on the date that the employee received a specific notice of separation by reduction in force.
(c) Eligibility for special selection priority as an eligible displaced employee of the former Panama Canal Zone expires on the earliest of:
(1) One year after the effective date of the reduction in force;
(2) The date that the employee receives a career, career-conditional, or excepted appointment without time limit in any agency at any grade level; or
(3) The date that the employee is separated involuntarily for cause prior to the effective date of the reduction in force action.